_Fox's East India Bill.--Pitt and the Coalition.--The City and Pitt.--Pitt's East India Bill.--The Reform Bill.--The City and the Shop Tax.--The Convention with France.--The City and the Slave trade.--Pitt's Regency Bill.--Thanksgiving service at St. Paul's for the King's recovery.--Pitt's Excise Bill for duty on tobacco.--The Military Guard of the Bank of England.--The French Revolution.--France declares war.--The Battle of the first of June.--Riots in the City.--Great scarcity of wheat.--Standard wheaten bread.--Assault on the King.--Negotiations for Peace.--Pitt's Loyalty Loan.--Foreign subsidies.--Suspension_ _of cash payments by Bank of England.--Another remonstrance of the Livery not received.--The Mutiny at the Nore.--Duncan's victory off Camperdown.--Pitt mobbed in the City.--Military associations in the City.--The Battle of the Nile.--Pitt's Income Tax Bill.--Royal review of City volunteers.--Capture of the Dutch fleet.--French overtures for peace declined.--The Livery protest against the prolongation of the war.--The Act of Union.--Bread riots in the City.--Conduct of Harvey Combe, Mayor.--Pitt resigns.--Battle of Copenhagen.--Peace of Amiens._ _Page 204_ CHAPTER XLII. _Resumption of hostilities.--Pitt recommends the fortifying of London.--Renewal of the Income Tax.--Nelson takes offence at the City.--Addington gives place to Pitt.--Volunteer review at Blackheath.--Pitt's Additional Force Bill.--The City claims to be treated in a separate Bill.--Artillery practice in Finsbury Fields.--The French camp at Boulogne.--Disgrace of Lord Melville.--The Battle of Trafalgar.--Nelson's funeral.--His monument in the Guildhall.--Death of Pitt.--The Ministry of all the Talents.--The fall of the Ministry.--The Duke of Portland.--The Berlin Decree.--The Peninsular War.--The Convention of Cintra.--The Scandal of the Duke of York.--The Walcheren Expedition.--The King's Jubilee.--The City urges an enquiry into the cause of recent failures.--Another remonstrance of the Livery not received.--The City opposes Wellington's annuity.--Sir Francis Burdett committed to the Tower.--Riots in the City.--Petition of the Livery to Parliament.--Petition dismissed.--Another Petition.--Ordered to lie on the table.--The King seriously ill.--The Regency Bill.--The Freedom of the City declined by the Prince_ _Regent.--An address of the Livery to the Regent not received.--Assassination of Spencer Perceval.--Battle of Salamanca.--The Shannon and the Chesapeake.--Treaty of Paris.--The Freedom of the City conferred on Wellington.--The City and the Slave trade.--The Battle of Waterloo._ _Page 251_ CHAPTER XLIII.